A Study on Foreign Nurse's Cultural Recognition at Medical Place

Abstract

　Our study aims to understand the recognition of foreign nurses from viewpoint of the cultures, especially how they recognize about the medical place and the foreign cultural background. We interviewed six foreign nurses through open-end-interview and used qualitative and inductive method. The results of analysis categorize the category "recognition based on culture about relation in the organization", "acquisition of nursing skill based on understanding of national culture", and "acquisition of adapting skill to organization culture". Since the foreign nurses experience cross-national culture and cross-organization culture at the medical place, it shows that they recognize the importance on smooth relations of their patients and the fellow workers at medical places. And it also shows that they try to assimilate into organization culture of workplace actively. The assimilation into the organization culture at the medical place is related to understand other works each other tacitly, so that they can work smoothly. At the medical place, we think that the mutual understanding of national and organization culture is useful to promote sharing information between fellow workers and checking order and intention at medical place, and to avoid the medical accidents.